# Sexual license in a public bath [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, German]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript \(MS. Reld 2\) ## Commentary Sexual license in a public bath c. 1470 Manuscript \(MS. Reld 2\) Staatliche Museen, Berlin Folio 244 of this 15th-century German codex contains the miniature showing a public bath. In the later Middle Ages realistic scenes in bath-houses, which often functioned as brothels, provided opportunities for erotic invention, but they are more satirical than pornographic. ## Related artworks - [Aachen Gospels]() - [Aachen Gospels]() - [Ada Gospels]() - [Allegory of the Sacraments]() - [Antoninus Florentinus: Chronicon]() - [Aratea]() - [Astronomical-computist collection]() - [Astronomicum caesareum]() - [Astronomicum caesareum]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()